The Fire Next Time Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Fire Next Time Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe" what?
(a) "What white people say about you."
(b) "That you are destined for greatness."
(c) "That your life is fluid."
(d) "That you are attainable."

2. Where did Homer live?
(a) Rome.
(b) Greece.
(c) Egypt.
(d) France.

3. What does the word "unassailable" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Capable of logic and enterprise.
(b) Unable to be attacked or defeated.
(c) Unable to be devoured.
(d) Unable to be dissuaded.

4. Whom does the author claim "no one has ever accused her of being bitter" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His daughter.

5. The author writes to the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "You come from a long line of" what?
(a) "Poets."
(b) "Teachers."
(c) "Slaves."
(d) "Carpenters."

6. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means eager to fight or defiant?
(a) Cautionary.
(b) Conclusive.
(c) Virulent.
(d) Truculent.

7. When was Charles Dickens born?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1805.

8. After whom was the letter recipient named in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) After the author.
(b) After his father.
(c) After his godfather.
(d) After his grandfather.

9. To whom is the author writing in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His brother.
(b) His son.
(c) His nephew.
(d) His father.

10. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook," "Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of" what?
(a) "One's own reality."
(b) "Grief."
(c) "Health and love."
(d) "The meaning of life."

11. In "My Dungeon Shook," the author cites E. Franklin Frazier as describing a time when the blacks left the land and entered into what?
(a) "The cities of decadence."
(b) "The cities of despair."
(c) "The cities of destruction."
(d) "The urban centers of prosperity."

12. The author claims of white people in "My Dungeon Shook," "They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which" what?
(a) "They do not understand."
(b) "They created themselves."
(c) "They never wanted."
(d) "They cannot escape."

13. How does the author conclude his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "God bless you, James, and Godspeed."
(b) "I will see you on the morrow."
(c) "I hope that you will forgive me."
(d) "I love you, dear James, and I send my love to the family."

14. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were" what?
(a) "On the road to failure."
(b) "On a road to success."
(c) "A worthless human being."
(d) "A part of the American Dream."

15. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have" what?
(a) "Survived."
(b) "Made it to the North."
(c) "Achieved so much."
(d) "Left."

Short Answer Questions

1. For what work is Homer most known?

2. When did E. Franklin Frazier help draft the UNESCO statement entitled The Race Question?

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to desire and determination to achieve success?

4. What word in "My Dungeon Shook" does the author define as meaning "that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it"?

5. What does the word "perish" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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